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...ownership of Fluor shares, one must presume that Harvard's interest was in St. Joe Minerals, which was the object of Fluor's friendly takeover bid in April of 1981. It doesn't take much of a political observer to know that Fluor's work on South Africa's coal gasification plans has enabled that racist regime to further sustain itself, reason enough to sell, of course...
...morning of the accident, the crew was blasting three adjacent faces at once, compounding the risks further. But the faster the coal can be blasted out, the better for an underfinanced operator, whose urge for greater productivity often leads to recklessness. Although Stanley shut down 31 Kentucky mines for violations after the recent spate of deaths, many small operators still ignore safety standards when blasting underground...
...least eleven states have effectively banned shooting coal from the solid, and such a prohibition by the Federal Government might be the only way to stop the rise in deaths from blasting accidents. Other dangers, from cave-ins to methane explosions, would remain...
...federal and six state inspections; just a few days before Lillie Hamilton's sons blew themselves up, in fact, they had spent eight hours in an MSHA safety seminar. "You still find a terrible fatalism out there," says Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. "An attitude that says, 'This is mining, you have to expect accidents.' " More and more, in dark hollows all over central Appalachia, that fatalism is having disastrous consequences. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Mink Branch
...that the tab for cleaner ah-has been reduced productivity, the new bill does not go along with a demand that additional antipollution measures be subjected to cost-benefit analyses. Such tests would try to determine whether the extra benefits to society derived from, say, putting smokestack "scrubbers" on coal-burning plants are really worth then-cost...